Should I quit blogging, asks Problogger

Problogger responds to the “Is blogging dead” meme that Steve Rubel and others have been posting about.

I get the sense from a lot of bloggers that they feel that they’re being left behind – that all this new stuff that is emerging is beyond them – that it’s hopeless to keep on blogging. [...]

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Is blogging dead?

Jon Buscall

So Steve Rubel has dumped blogging for lifestreaming. Charles Arthur at The Guardian also notes that participation on Twitter and Facebook is replacing blogging.

Whilst I’ve noticed some of my favourite bloggers aren’t posting as frequently as usual, my own take on this is simple: don’t abandon your blog – [...]

Did you claim your name in the Facebook username land rush?

I did http://www.facebook.com/bob.morris

Claim your name here http://www.facebook.com/username/

Not to worry, the old links with lots of numbers in them still work.

How Twitter and Facebook now compete with Google

Mark Cuban

For the 1st time ever, more people are finding my blog from Twitter and Facebook referrals than via Google. The total number of people coming to my blog is increasing. The percentage of people who find it via Google is declining. Significantly.

This trend will only continue and is probably not reversible. I [...]

Fargo using social media to fight flooding

Fargo residents are using email, Facebook, and Twitter to mobilize against the incoming monster flood and to keep each other notified.

Twitter goes mainstream

Twitter is now being mentioned in the Sunday funnies, a sure sign it is going mainstream.

And Doonesbury is mentioning Facebook.

Twitter, the most important website since Google?

Twitter (and Facebook) are disruptive technologies.

A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is a technological innovation that improves a product or service in ways that the market does not expect,

Disruptive technologies are particularly threatening to the leaders of an existing market, because they are competition coming from an unexpected direction.

Google in particular, is [...]

Why Facebook never listens to users and why it won’t start now

Uber-geek Robert Scoble responds to the current furor over the Facebook redesign and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg saying disruptive companies don’t listen to their customers.

He thinks it’s a brilliant decision. Say what? Isn’t it a credo of modern business, especially for tech companies, to listen to the customer and give them what they [...]

The real time web

Social networks ‘are new e-mail

Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard.

“We are all in the process of creating e-mail 2.0,” David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer said.

At South by Southwest now there [...]